How to configure new website to use aspnetdb for membership/login

you have to configure that in the web.config file

That was a good start, so now I have a partial victory.

I can build aspnetdb, have passwordFormat="Clear" for clear text passwords, add a user and log in a user.

Here's what I can't do...
  1. Have the LoginStatus correctly indicate log in or log out
  2. Have the LoginName correctly indicate the userid or empty
  3. change the password, minRequiredPasswordLength="4",             minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0", so this is a very lenient password.  It always gripes.
  4. send an email (how do I configure that?).

partial web.config...

      <connectionStrings>
            <remove name="LocalSqlServer"/>
            <add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=BROTHERBILL;Initial Catalog=aspnetdb;User ID=sa;Password=masterkey" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
      </connectionStrings>

      <system.web>
            <roleManager enabled="true"/>
            <membership defaultProvider="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider">
                  <providers>
                        <remove name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"/>
                        <add connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer"
             name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"
             enablePasswordRetrieval="true"
             enablePasswordReset="false"
             applicationName="/"
             requiresUniqueEmail="false"
             passwordFormat="Clear"
             maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5"
             minRequiredPasswordLength="4"
             minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
             passwordAttemptWindow="10"
             passwordStrengthRegularExpression=""
             requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
             type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"/>
                  </providers>
            </membership>

Are you using visual studio 2005?
Have you looked at the "login" controls under the toolbox?

Yes, I am using Visual studio 2005.
And yes, I am using the "login" controls under the toolbox.

And yes, I left something out.
Changed   <authentication mode="Windows"/>   (the default)
to             <authentication mode="Forms"/>

This solved all the problems except where the user requests emailing their password.
In the PasswordRecovery control, set properties: "From" to my email and "Subject" to "Your lost password"

Error when requesting a new password is: "The SMTP host was not specified."
So now the question is: How do I specify the SMTP host for the PasswordRecovery control?

Thank you